Former US president Bill Clinton paid last respects to Israel's Shimon Peres on Thursday as the body of the Nobel Peace Prize winner lay in state outside the country's parliament.

Clinton appeared moved as he stood before Peres's flag-draped coffin at the plaza outside parliament in Jerusalem. The former US president had helped usher in the Oslo peace accords of the 1990s, which resulted in the Nobel prize for Peres, who died on Wednesday aged 93.